# Crunchy Frog Explained!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 12, 2000, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crunchy-frog-explained/32886 "2000-09-12T14:01:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2000, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crunchy-frog-explained/32886/1 "2000-09-12T14:01:49Z")
Okay, ever since I’ve changed my name I’m seeing a lot of people going Crunchy Frog? 😕 So I think I should explain that the name came from [this Monty Python skit](http://bau2.uibk.ac.at/sg/python/Scripts/HollywoodBowl/hollywood.html#whizzo) Any other question? No? Ok, that’s all, love you, bye-bye. ---
**Author:** ![rundogrun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5daacb/32.png) [@rundogrun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rundogrun)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2000, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crunchy-frog-explained/32886/2 "2000-09-12T14:07:56Z")
Oh I know it well. If we took your bones out you wouldn’t be crunchy then, now would you? ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2000, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crunchy-frog-explained/32886/3 "2000-09-12T14:12:42Z")
I used to go by the alias Ford Prefect on bullitin boards. I tired of explaining its origin. My former gf once gave me the 3rd degree as to why I was on an Indiana BBS that she telnetted to. She was kind of disappointed that I wasn’t creative enough to think of my own name, not just take one from a novel. _shrug_ ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2000, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crunchy-frog-explained/32886/4 "2000-09-12T14:33:35Z")
I’m thinking of adding the link in my OP to my sig line, so if anyone has any questions, they can go straight there. Add I’d never thought of Doug Adams. As soon as Python jumped in my head, that’s what I focused on. Maybe I could’ve gone with _Dirk Gently_. BTW, runners-up to **Crunchy Frog** were _Chicken of Bristol_, _Eric the Half-a-Bee_, _Eric the Fish_, _Knight Who Says Ni_, and _Mr. Creosote_. ---
**Author:** ![Gunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2000, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crunchy-frog-explained/32886/5 "2000-09-12T14:41:51Z")
Who were you previously? ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2000, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crunchy-frog-explained/32886/6 "2000-09-12T14:49:37Z")
Awww, c’mon Gunslinger. Don’t you wanna work at it a little bit and try to figure it out for yourself? You’ll probably be able to figure it out [in this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=36445). ---
**Author:** ![aenea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@aenea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aenea)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2000, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crunchy-frog-explained/32886/7 "2000-09-12T14:52:05Z")
I don’t want to work to figure it out. I’m already at work. It’s Tuesday, with the rest of the week still to go. My face hurts from the root canal I had yesterday. Just tell us, willya? ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2000, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crunchy-frog-explained/32886/8 "2000-09-12T14:57:45Z")
Fine, fine. [sub]lazy, do-nothin, wanna-have-everything-handed to them, so-and-so, #$@%![/sub] I am the Poster Formerly Known as BratMan007. I got tired of that name and felt like a change. I never really liked it to begin with, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Aglarond](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@Aglarond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aglarond)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2000, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crunchy-frog-explained/32886/9 "2000-09-12T15:00:19Z")
I love that sketch. Cockroach cluster, anyone? ---
**Author:** ![porcupine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ac91a4/32.png) [@porcupine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/porcupine)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2000, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crunchy-frog-explained/32886/10 "2000-09-12T16:14:13Z")
If I want to pop a nice chocky in my mouth, I prefer Anthrax Ripple, or Spring Surprise. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2000, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crunchy-frog-explained/32886/11 "2000-09-12T16:38:55Z")
It wouldn’t be all that enlightening, but if you wanted to torment further those who don’t get your new username, you could just use this as your sig: > [@](#): > > Contains sugar, cocoa butter, natural flavors, yellow dye #5, monosodium glutamate, lark’s vomit. ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2000, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crunchy-frog-explained/32886/12 "2000-09-12T16:47:08Z")
Thanks KneadToKnow, I’ll add that right away. ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2000, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crunchy-frog-explained/32886/13 "2000-09-12T16:53:49Z")
Actually, KneadToKnow, after referencing the source of my name, I’ve learned you are describing the Ram’s Bladder Cup. Constable: Number 5 “Ram’s Bladder Cup!” Now what kind of confection is this? Mr. Hilton: We use choice juicy chunks of fresh Cornish ram’s bladder, emptied, steamed, flavored with sesame seeds, whipped into a fondue, and garnished with larks’ vomit! So I’ve gone with the sig you can see below. ---
**Author:** ![Mike30](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bb73d2/32.png) [@Mike30](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike30)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2000, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crunchy-frog-explained/32886/14 "2000-09-12T17:52:21Z")
It don’t say anything about LARK’S VOMIT on the box! It think it appropriate if the box bore a large red label ⚠ LARK"S VOMIT! ---
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2000, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crunchy-frog-explained/32886/15 "2000-09-12T18:02:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mike30 \* > \*\*It don’t say anything about LARK’S VOMIT on the box! It think it appropriate if the box bore a large red label ⚠ LARK"S VOMIT! \*\* Yes, quite right! Constible Clitoris ate one of those, you know. ---
**Author:** ![Gunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2000, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crunchy-frog-explained/32886/16 "2000-09-12T18:18:53Z")
I like the “real” (as opposed to live) version better: > [@](#): > > Oh, we use only the finest baby frogs, dew-picked and flown from Iraq, cleansed in the finest quality spring water, lightly killed, and sealed in a succulent, Swiss, quintuple-smooth, treble-milk chocolate envelope, and lovingly frosted with glucose. Full text and a .wav clip [here.](http://www.montypython.net/scripts/crunchy.php3) ---
**Author:** ![Gunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2000, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crunchy-frog-explained/32886/17 "2000-09-12T18:22:49Z")
Damn…the .wav clip is of the live version. It was funnier (and closer to the given script) on the TV show. ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2000, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crunchy-frog-explained/32886/18 "2000-09-12T19:07:52Z")
Thanks for the original version Gunslinger, I’ve updated my sig with it. ---
**Author:** ![Aglarond](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@Aglarond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aglarond)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2000, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crunchy-frog-explained/32886/19 "2000-09-12T20:16:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mike30 \* > \*\*It don’t say anything about LARK’S VOMIT on the box! It think it appropriate if the box bore a large red label ⚠ LARK"S VOMIT! \*\* But our sales would plummet! ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2000, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crunchy-frog-explained/32886/20 "2000-09-12T21:44:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Crunchy Frog \* > Actually, KneadToKnow, after referencing the source of my name, I’ve learned you are describing the Ram’s Bladder Cup. 😃 I’m just glad I could help. That’s 2 sigs I’ve been party to rewriting.